Jr. Fiber Product Manager
Location: BE, VBR, Leuven
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
We are specialized in HR consulting, sourcing PhD, MSc &amp; MEng professionals on permanent and contract level positions across the globe.

Job description:
TE Connectivity is a $13 billion world leader in connectivity. The company designs and manufacturesproducts at the heart of electronic connections for the world’s leading industries including automotive,energy and industrial, broadband communications, consumer devices, healthcare, and aerospace anddefense. TE Connectivity’s long-standing commitment to innovation and engineering excellence helpsits customers solve the need for more energy efficiency, always-on communications and ever-increasing productivity. With nearly 90,000 employees in over 50 countries, TE Connectivity makes connections the world relies on to work flawlessly every day.The Telecom Networks division of TE Connectivity provides end-to-end network accessory solutions for copper, fibre, coax and wireless telecom networks. Products include network accessories for central offices/head ends, outside plant and customer premises. The division’s growth strategy is driven bydeeper fibre penetration in broadband networks (FTTx) to increase bandwidth. To implement thedivisional strategy and to further develop the business, TE wants to strengthen the productmanagement team with a fibre product manager.Jr. Fiber Product Manager(Fix job, full time, Kessel-Lo – Belgium)Position Description1.Implements the product line / market segment strategy:oUnderstands future market trendsoUnderstands strengths and weaknesses of competitive productsoCreates the TE value propositionoDefines the roadmap for the product2.Manages the P&amp;L / improves the profitability of his product lines / market segment:oDrives continuous cost reduction for his product linesoSets priorities between projects competing for the same resourcesoRationalizes his product lines and optimizes business processes to:oReduce the support costs in R&amp;D and OperationsoReach the required service levels while optimizing cost and working capital3.Initiates product development projects and participates in the execution:oDevelops the business case for the project and defends it to senior managementoDefines product requirementsoWorks with sales, R&amp;D and Operations to create and execute the integrated project plan (incl.activities, milestones, dependencies, people and financialresources, risk management) oIs the interface to customers and sales oExecutes projects as the sales &amp; marketing core team member, or as the core team leader4.Supports salesoPrepares marketing literature (presentations, data sheets, brochures, web)oPresents to customers, participates in customer meetings and negotiationsoGives training to salesoWorks with sales to respond to tenders (product configuration, compliance, pricing, commercialconditions, profitability)oResponds to questions from sales and customers about products and applications

Requirements:
Position RequirementsGood strategic thinking, strong analytical skillsStrong entrepreneurial drive to grow a businessBusiness experience in a similar business environment is a plusPreferably telecom experience; as a minimum: interest in telecom and technologyStrong communication skillsStrong learning “on the fly” capabilitiesStrong team player, “natural” team leaderPragmatic: keeps feet on the ground, can implementEducation: preferably engineering degree, business degree is a plusPrepared to travel up to 30% of his/her timeFluent in English and minimum two other European languages

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